Sunday News Round-Up, OMG the Next Three Weeks Edition

First up, some brief comments on Gosnell: The “care” women received from Dr. Kermit Gosnell is abhorrent. The idea that nobody is covering it is not true, however. It was covered extensively when many details first became known in 2011. Here’s my own post on the issue. It is also not representative of abortion care or even late-term abortion care (which is extremely limited) in this country. A woman is more likely to die from pregnancy than abortion in the United States. There absolutely was a failure to inspect and act on his clinic. That is a failure to do what they were *supposed* to do – and no amount of hospital admitting privileges, wider doorways, or other common “TRAP” laws would have done anything to change it. Preventing all late-term abortions is not the issue, either – they’re already extremely limited, and a total ban is unjust for women who develop severe health complications or whose fetuses are either already dead or would not survive. Want to see more abortion “care” like Gosnell’s? Continue to ignore women’s sex ed and contraception needs, defunding family planning services, cutting state budgets because “government” is the enemy, and working toward elimination of legal abortion. I guarantee you’ll see more of it. Using Gosnell to further restrict abortion virtually guarantees more cases *just like Gosnell.* More: There is no Gosnell coverup: ” If you’ve never ...
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